Jennifer Van Grove is a writer at VentureBeat. She focuses her reporting on early stage startups, technology companies, industry trends, social media and mobile. Jennifer was previously a senior reporter at Mashable. She also has experience in broadcast television and introduced social media reporting to the NBC San Diego newsroom. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from UCLA. You can find her on Google+, Twitter and Facebook.

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Twitter updates iPhone and Android apps, releases Kindle Fire app

With one fell swoop, Twitter has confronted privacy concerns, returned missed features to its mobile audience, and opened its information network up to even more tablet-toting folks.

Twitter for iPhone and Android received updates Tuesday. The fixes address previously identified …